Saturday was not a summer’s day with depressed temperatures and frequent showers.The thermometer reach a high of 19.4C just after midday at 12.56 as cloud had begin to drift in from mid-morning and showers began early afternoon. The peak temperature was 2.7C below average. The radar showed three distinct weather fronts when steadier rain fell at 14.00, 15.35 and then a longer spell at 17.15 to 19.50. In the latter shower the wind was very brisk with a peak gust of 24mph. I was surprised to note on the console during the evening that Marlborough caught the southern tip of another brisk shower at 20.45. The combined precipitation totalled 10.4mm. The sky must have cleared in the early hours as the temperature dropped to a low of 10.4C at 06.44, just after sunrise in Marlborough at 06.17 when there was not a cloud in the sky. The low was 0.8C below average.

As previously mentioned, Sunday began under clear blue skies and sunshine after the sun rose. Sadly, variable cloud was observed drifting in from the west around 07.30 that by 08.15 severely limited the sunshine. The rain radar at 08.30 showed two main bands of rain arriving from the west, the nearest over Devon and Dorset drifting across on a southwesterly breeze.

The depression is still parked to the north of Northern Ireland and just to the west of Scotland and will be there again tomorrow. The next two days will see a rash of showers developing, as the mornings progress, with the wind increasing as the showers arrive on both days.

The projected track of the Jet Stream is bending south of the UK until Wednesday at least, that will see the run of cooler, showery weather continue.

Once again there headline grabbing comments about another heatwave, this time for the second week of September. That is a long way ahead and much could change in the intervening period. If it does arrive it is unlikely to reach the heatwave threshold of 27C.